Gimv Disaster recovery in the cloud ...and beyond
A value enhancing Platform Strategy to become the next generation European Private Equity and Venture Capital market leader
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COMPANY PRESENTATION
Gimv, a pioneer in continental Europe since 1980 UNIQUE STRENGTHS & DIFFERENTIATION
FACTS & FIGURES
• Funding from strong balance sheet, complemented with specialised coinvestment funds
• EUR 1.8 billion AUM
• Long-term active support to portfolio companies • International reach with a local touch, strong brand & network • Focus on value creation via 4 platforms • Flexibility in investment instruments and exit timing, given evergreen fund structure
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• Listed on NYSE-Euronext Brussels • 35 years of expertise in PE & VC • 120 employees in 4 offices
DIVERSIFIED PORTFOLIO
Multidimensional cross country platform strategy to partner with the next generation entrepreneurs • Consumer 2020 Companies with a clear vision on the needs and preferences of the future consumer • Health & Care Health and care solutions for the ageing, health- and cost-conscious society • Smart Industries Smart, technology enabled solutions and added value services • Sustainable Cities Services, utilities & infrastructure with a sustainable community impact
4 platforms with dedicated and skilled team across Gimv’s home market: Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany
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Selected Consumer 2020 portfolio
SUCCESS STORIES
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Selected Health & Care portfolio
Success stories
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Selected Smart Industries portfolio
Success stories
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Selected Sustainable Cities portfolio
Success stories
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IT ORGANIZATION •
Centralized in Antwerp
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4 FT (helpdesk, system manager, appl. manager,..)
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Focus on critical systems with majority technical knowledge in-house
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Projects: internal & consultancy based (specific areas)
we deal with people and technology vendor independent approach
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COMPANY PRESENTATION
Main IT drivers • • • • •
Business continuity (24/7) Stability Security – layered approach Flexibility – any time & any place Integrity – one source of truth
End user expectations • IT consumerization • Freedom & flexibility • Mixing work and private (applications & data)
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IT environment in a nutshell • 100 % virtualized • +/- 3 Tb fileservers • 30 Tb production data • +/- 60 servers + 150 vdi’s • VDI environment (CYOD + remote) • Mission critical backup every 4 hrs + G/F/S + tape • Remote offices: The Hague, Paris, Munich
• MPLS + local ISPs
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Disaster recovery: the old skool way • • • • •
Selective backup targets Tape = king Agents, agents and more agents Updates, compatiblity,… How to restore ?
• Veeam Backup & Recovery as from v5 • Symantec = Tape-writer
• RPO / RTO
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Classic disaster recovery approach Veeam Backup & Recovery (3-2-1 principle) • Granular restores of mails / files / AD objects • Backups on premises + external location + other medium • Important servers: high frequency + replica’s
• Well defined procedures are necessary ! • Restore procedure, failover procedure • Testing integrity of backups: Surebackup
• Extra complexity when in (partial) disaster mode • Routing issues (international context) • Next gen firewalls • Patching done ?
RPO / RTO !
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IT challenges (endusers not included) • Fast evolving environments • Sizing ? • How many computing nodes, disk requirements • What type of technology (all flash, tiering, FC, NFS,…)
• How can we secure IT ? • Load balancing • Next gen firewalls • Patching
• CAPEX / OPEX
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2 phase plan (1/2) Step 1: Setting up DR-site Whishlist • Pay per TB allocated storage • Pay as you go when firing up machines • Veeam Cloud Connect
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No investment in company owned hardware Flexible storage allocation Easy setup and maintain v9 features ??
Identify technical KPI’s !
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CON’s • • •
Still routing complexity Total / partial disaster Security
2 phase plan (2/2) Step 2: Shift machines from DR site to external datacenter • Installing adquate and personal managed security appliances • Move workloads to external location at own pace • Final mission: run production on the central external location
Step 2 should result in:
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Higher uptimes Increased flexibility regarding storage, CPU-power, total sizing Forecasting costs Focus on added value to business
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Keep an eye on public cloud (SAAS) Again: disaster recovery ? & procedures, DR-testing
CONTACT
Kristof Poppe
[email protected]
@kristofpoppe
Belgium Gimv nv Karel Oomsstraat 37 2018 Antwerpen T +32 3 290 21 00
The Netherlands Gimv Nederland Holding BV Lange Voorhout 9 2514 EA Den Haag T +31 70 3 618 618
France Gimv France SAS 38, avenue Hoche 75008 Paris T +33 1 58 36 45 60
Germany Gimv Promenadeplatz 12 80333 München T +49 89 442 327 50
